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Liam Howard was a wreck. He had been for two years, ever since a knee injury ruined his soccer career, ruined his dreams, and made him a laughing stock of the community with a viral video of his worst moment.Now, he was still struggling to figure out who he was without the sport and where he'd go with his future when he couldn't be the star athlete anymore. In his junior year of college, Liam was confused about his future and about himself. Things were only made more confusing when he met his new roommate for the year. Banks, an aspiring tattoo artist and expert chicken wing connoisseur, piqued Liam's interest from day one. Which was weird, because he'd never thought about another guy so much, or looked at one as much as he looked at Banks.Junior year steamrolls forward as Liam tries to learn this new version of himself, who he is, who he loves, and how the hell he's going to get through the rest of the year in one piece.CW: homophobia, mature sexual content, mature language…

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This is a sequel to Viral!Jensen Cane had a rough go of things in high school, but she made the best of it by turning her pain into music that the world wanted to hear. With a skyrocketing YouTube career and a high school diploma, she heads to London for the summer to spend time with her creator friends and finally experience all of the fame she's been working so hard for.This is the perfect chance to get away from all of the drama she left back home, but of course it won't be that easy. As Jensen continues to juggle the complex relationships of high school, London only starts to add even more complications to her life. She's in for a summer of making great memories with great friends, but she is completely unprepared for what else lies ahead.**Warning ** Contains explicit sexual content, but there will be warnings ahead of those sections so you can skip if you want!…

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A Love Child SequelJosie and Casey met when they were fourteen and immediately became best friends. Nobody could make Josie laugh like Casey could. Nobody understood her the way he did. They were both sure that their friendship was special and they would be partners in crime forever.At twenty-four years old, Josie has realized that dream was clearly a deluded fantasy. Josie and Casey haven't spoken in six years and everything is different. And then Josie's journalism career throws Casey right back into her life and neither one of them know how to navigate their awkward and complicated relationship. Will the tension break these two apart forever, or will Josie get everything she's always wanted?** This is the sequel to Love Child, but it works as a stand alone story and you don't need to read Love Child in order to read this, but you might miss some of the smaller details…

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Maren Headly was a starving artist type in a big city. She loved creating music and performing it for the niche crowd of fans she acquired over the years, even if it meant her bank account was always desolate. Before the letters started, she loved the attention of being on stage and letting her emotions flow into the lyrics. Before the break-ins and threats, she dreamed of having die hard fans that would do anything to know her. But once she got a taste of that reality, of always feeling like somebody was there, watching, Maren started to wonder if her dreams had gotten her in way over her head. And if she could even make it out alive.** Paperback version available at https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/writerbug44**…

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[Complete - 3/28/2021]Charles Henlock was on vacation in France with his family when he fell in love with Audrine. When it was time to return to Nevada, he gave her his heart and promised that he'd write to her. Little did he know that every time he sent a letter to Audrine, his parents would intercept it and hide it with all of the other unsent letters to stop them from being together.Fifty-seven years later, Charles became Grandpa Charlie and that box of letters became a dirty secret of his past. Until he finds himself on his deathbed. He asks his granddaughter to get the letters to Audrine, hoping that they could give her some closure after almost six decades of silence from the only man she'd ever loved.Maisie isn't used to doing things without her parents permission, but she is determined to fulfill her grandpa's last wish. Hoping that along the way, she'll learn more about her grandpa's past, she starts on her journey to the South of France to find Charlie's long lost love. When she discovers that Audrine also became a grandparent to a very handsome man, she starts to realize that history may be repeating itself. Will she break the cycle and follow her heart, or is she doomed to follow in her grandfather's footsteps?Editors: @sofiagv_writes @RainCloudHannah and @BiatchxpurleaseCover: @apagado…

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Eleanor never really stood a chance.Her mother was in love with a married man and a little bit crazy. And even though Eleanor's tired mother hated children, she was convinced that he would love her too if they just had a child together. That's how Eleanor was born. And when Eleanor didn't work, when he didn't leave his wife, she decided that one baby wasn't enough and so she had another. And that's how Casey was born. When she realized that having his children wasn't going to make him fall in love with her, she remembered just how badly she hated children. Eleanor and Casey were suddenly thrown aside by their broken-hearted mother; and then their father, being the married man that he was, completely denied their existence. Which left 8-year-old Eleanor and newborn baby Casey in foster care, hidden from the world like a blemish. As Eleanor gets older, she is forced to protect her brother from the cruel world that they live in. She doesn't want him to grow up like she did, feeling like a thrown away misfit. Eleanor learns that she needs to do whatever it takes to get her brother a better life. And that's when the trouble starts for her.By the time that Eleanor turns 22, she has been consumed by a world of lies, money, and sex. Convinced that doing the wrong thing is okay for the right reasons, Eleanor is used to living with two separate identities. When it all starts to catch up with her, Eleanor has to figure out how she is going to make it out of the mess that she's created. Poor girl. She never really stood a chance.…

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Wren had thought that she was doing everything right. She had the right career path, the right boyfriend, the right friends. She did everything that she was told, and she thought that she was happy. Until her junior year of college is about to start and Wren finds her boyfriend making out in the garage with somebody else. Now that she realizes that doing what she's told gets her nowhere, Wren decides that she should start doing everything wrong. Date the wrong boys, break the laws, and piss people off. She spirals out of control after the betrayal of a lifetime and Wren won't stop until she's hit rock bottom, and she lands on her face. [Also available on Radish]…

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Vera Markov was born into this life. She did not choose it. Had she been given the choice, she never would have even considered this life to be an option. She was born a human but she was raised to be a monster. A killer, a fighter, a warrior. She was trained until there was no more humanity left inside of her, there was only cruelty, hatred, and apathy. She lived under her father's rule, executing his demands to the syllable.Dante Berardi knew her pain. He too was born a human, raised to be a monster. A killer, fighter, and a warrior too. They are practically the same person, except for the fact that they were also raised to hate each other. They were both born to rival crime families in the same city, fighting over money, territory, and just about anything else that they could fight over. Vera and Dante have never met until Vera is sent undercover to get answers from Dante's side of the city. She gets much more than she bargained for, finding answers to questions that she's never asked and feeling human emotions that she's never felt before. As she discovers more about herself and her past, Vera starts to wonder if the monster inside of her can ever be conquered or if she's doomed to this life forever.…

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Lana and Sutton thought that they were going to take college by storm. Being on their own isn't easy but they have each other and when they have each other, they can do anything. Best friends, family, sisters, twins. They are with each other through thick and thin. They're trying to adapt to adult life, everything is going perfectly and they're ready for anything thrown their way. Homework, friends, exams, college parties, and college boys.It's their second year and they're ready for it to be the best year yet with new friends, new romances, and new memories. Little did they know what kind of storm was coming their way, and that nobody could ever be prepared for this.…

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Peyton has had a rough go of things. A distant father, a drunk mother. The usual sort of sob story.When Peyton finds out that her dad is getting remarried and that she's going to have to take a road trip across the country with her brother and her boyfriend to be there on his wedding day, she thinks that things couldn't possibly get any worse. Until her boyfriend cheats on her a few weeks before their departure date with none other than her best friend. The sob story continues. Now, Peyton is forced to travel across America with a foreign stranger, her grumpy brother, his very un-grumpy girlfriend, and a dog who's just trying his best. She's convinced that this will be the worst summer of her life but if it were that depressing, there wouldn't be a story written about it. Things take a twist for the better... and then for the worst... and for the better again (basically, it's a very twisty ride) as she finds ways to make this road trip memorable for everybody.…

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Yasmin used to love living on an apple orchard with her family. She loved going out into the orchard in the mornings to pick the apples with her family, running around with her brother and their dog while her mom and dad would sneak kisses behind the trees when they thought nobody was looking. When Yasmin was twelve, however, everything changed. Her mother died and then, slowly, so did all of the apple trees. As the trees started to lose their leaves and shrivel up, she watched her dad cure his broken heart with whiskey. She watched her brother turn into somebody unrecognizable. As the apples died, so did her family. Even now, at eighteen, Yasmin lives with a dreadful sense of hopelessness in her small town with her twisted family and their stupid yet lovable dog. No way up, no way out. Yasmin is stuck. Until, of course, she meets Dex and he accidentally starts to change everything.…

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I knew that something was wrong when the pancakes were burnt.** 13 Reasons Why Contest Entry **…

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The White Cloud Hotel: Where dreams come true. Except for Bea Holloway, who was uprooted from her home in Illinois to move to Florida when her dad decides to buy this luxury hotel on the coast of Eastern Florida. Without any close friends or any school to return to, Bea doesn't look at this move as a bad thing until she realizes that this sunny paradise isn't all that it seems to be. Bea notices everything changing: Her family dynamic, her outlook on life, and her social life are all unlike how they were back home. With a flirty bellhop, a pretty lifeguard, a weird little brother, and her two dogs, Bea starts realizing that that living in a luxury hotel isn't so... luxurious.…

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Jo Mast had a rough start to life. Up until she was seven, Jo had lived in an abusive household with only her pretend adventures in the tree house next door with the neighbor boy to keep her sane. Now, Jo is all grown up and the dark memories of her early years have faded. She now had Jasper and a full ride scholarship to college and she’s happy with her life. However, when she moves to go to school that just so happens to be in her old hometown, Jo must dig up old memories that she had spent many years burying. And that just might include finding the boy from the tree house that she’d said goodbye to so many years before. With the help of her friends, old and new, Jo finds a way to maneuver through the struggles of moving away from home and really finding out what it feels like to grow up.…

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This is not a ‘boy saves the girl’ type of story. This is anything but that. No boy can save a girl like Ana Shaw. She is saveless. Ana Shaw has had a rough three years. After a traumatic experience when she was fifteen, she has been in and out of mental hospitals in hopes of trying to make her whole again. Now, after multiple suicide attempts and then a full year of recovery, Ana finds herself back in a patient facility, surrounded by other mentally unstable people. But really, what's wrong with wanting to die? After everything that she's been through, it's totally understandable that she wants to end her life. However, everybody around her is determined to keep her alive no matter what she wants. Will they succeed or will Ana slip through their fingers once and for all? With the help of a few people at the mental rehabilitation center that she is staying in, Ana fights to find reasons to live before it's too late.…

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Stella Wayne is on her way to a bright future. With multiple awards under her belt and the most elite dance school in the country on her transcript, any college would be lucky to have her. With a full ride scholarship to Julliard already in her name, the only thing Stella has to do is survive her last year of high school- how hard can that be? Stella quickly finds out that it can be very hard. Especially when the new girls at the school begin to form a wedge between Stella and her boyfriend, Andrew. They were already having problems before these two beautiful girls entered the equation, but now, their days of romance and coupledome are about to come to an end. However, Stella won't go down without a fight. As Stella realizes that the cupcake phase in a relationship doesn't last forever, she also has to come face to face with her family issues and problems within herself. After all that's happened, Stella will just be grateful to make it out of senior year alive.…

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Sienna Mast is a tough girl and she always has been. But everybody has their breaking point. Sienna's abusive household becomes too much for her, so she seeks outside help in her uncle that lives across the country. She needs money and he has a lot of it, but she has to earn it. Her uncle promises Sienna money if she can complete the summer at a dance school. Since she's been dancing her whole life, she doesn't think it'll be too hard. However, she starts to rethink her decision when she realizes that her classmates are willing to do anything to beat the competition. With a bubbly roommate, a scary instructor, and a few jealous enemies, Sienna has to make it through the summer for her family's sake. What could possibly go wrong?Buy the paperback edition on Lulu! http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/writerbug44…

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Living in Los Angeles and finding herself in desperate need of money, Iris found it the most obvious option to try her hand at acting. Working as an extra on big time movie sets for years, she's gotten the hang of things. She stays under the radar, does her job, and then moves on. She's met her fair share of celebrities but she's found it that the easiest way to do her job is to stay as far away from them as possible. However, once she's noticed by one of the stars of the movie, she can't be unnoticed. Now, Iris has to decide if he's worth all of the risk that comes along with him. She doesn't want to get hurt again-the world as already failed her so much. Not only that but being associated with a celebrity means putting your life on blast too and Iris realizes that she's stuck deciding between a leap of faith to find love or playing it safe to protect her dirty secrets. And like most nineteen year olds, she is absolutely clueless about what to do.…

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Dear Nobody,My name is Luna Rose Wesley and I'm just like any other girl my age. I have some secrets, I'm afraid of the future, I have some complicated relationships and some amazing friends, and I'm just trying to do anything that I can to survive. But as the days pass, it seems like surviving in my world is becoming more difficult with every minute. You see, without any money, my family is forced to live in in an apartment building that's smack dab in the center of our rundown part of the city. And my mother is just a work of art. She is now addicted to drugs, and she isn't trying very hard at all to try to get us out of our inner-city situation. Living in constant fear, not only of what's outside my window at night, but also of my violent dealing brother living in the room across the hall, I have to find a way to cope without putting a bullet in my skull like so many of my fallen brethren. And my coping mechanism is to write letters to nobody- to you- and sending it to an address that doesn't exist. I need somebody to talk to without that somebody thinking that I'm looking for pity, so I've found you. Nobody. Thanks for listening.Sincerely,Luna Rose(Rated Mature for the mentioning of sex, drug use, violence, and profane language. Does not contain actual sex scenes.)…

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Jensen Cane was one of those cliché kids in high school. You know, the bottom of the food chain, eye of the bullies kind of kid that everybody feels sorry for but never sorry enough to actually help? With a target on her back, Jensen struggles through her first year of high school just like all of the other clichés. Waiting for her moment to shine, waiting for the rain to pass. But the thing with Jensen is that she isn't as cliché as she may originally seem. She's quite the fighter- stubborn and strong as hell, Jensen isn't going to go down without a fight. Despite the bullying, Jensen manages to get noticed on one of the internet's biggest websites: YouTube. She's awkward and not really all that funny but she does have a voice of gold and now, the country loves her for it. Flash forward to senior year where Jensen has gone from zero to mild celebrity and the bullies have been long forgotten to everybody except for Jensen. Of course, the mental turmoil had left a scar in Jensen but she's moved on to bigger and better things with multi-million subscribers and a hopeless crush on her best friend. She's turned her whole life around, just to have it crash back down around her.…